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A new database that allows users to explore the factors that predispose different mammalian species to extinction – from human encroachment to slow reproductive rate – could be useful in planning conservation schemes, its developers say. Link to story: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17678-mammal-database-identifies-species-destined-for-trouble.html

The Center for Biological Diversity and 60 other national and regional organizations sent a letter today to members of Congress requesting increased funding for research on white-nose syndrome, a disease that has been devastating bat populations in the eastern United States over the past two years. Link to story: http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/news/press_releases/2009/bats-05-20-2009.html

The birth of Kihansi spray toadlets at the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Bronx Zoo has renewed hopes that the species can someday be successfully reintroduced to its natural habitat in a remote gorge in Tanzania. Link to story: http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0904-kihansi_spray_toad.html

A study published by GWC scientists and colleagues describes the world’s remaining areas that contain fully intact large mammal faunas. Link to story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7161644.stm